People, place, partnership: Delivering neighbourhood health systems

Organised by European Healthcare Design in collaboration with Healthy City Design

Supported by Archus

Date: 2 June | Time: 16.00-17.30 BST

From the UK to Canada and beyond, designing and delivering neighbourhood-based health systems require more than service redesign; They call for integrated infrastructure, strong cross-sector partnerships, digital intelligence, and a renewed focus on health creation and equity.

Organised by European Healthcare Design in collaboration with Healthy City Design, and supported by Archus, this webinar brings together international health system leaders, public health professionals, planners, investors, and community partners to explore how neighbourhoods can become the organising principle for healthier, more equitable societies. Drawing on global perspectives – including place-based approaches in Canada and the UK – we will examine how locally rooted systems can better respond to population needs, address inequalities, and enable long-term transformation.

The webinar will highlight practical strategies for aligning healthcare with housing, education, planning, arts, leisure, and community organisations to create connected neighbourhood health ecosystems. It will also explore the role of infrastructure, AI, population health analytics, and real-time data in enabling more responsive local systems.

Join us on 2 June, 16.00–17.30 BST, to explore the following and hear the insights of our esteemed panel. Register here to attend via Zoom.

Key themes:

• Reframing health around neighbourhoods: Shifting care closer to home and positioning health systems as anchor institutions within community infrastructure.
• Designing the whole-system ecosystem: Aligning housing, education, community organisations, arts, leisure, planning, and healthcare to create integrated neighbourhood health environments.
• Infrastructure, data and digital intelligence: Leveraging AI, population health analytics, and real-time data to enable smarter, more responsive local systems.
• Tackling inequalities through place-based design: Using neighbourhood models to reduce disparities in life expectancy, mental health, and the wider social determinants of health.
• Creative health, social value and sustainable development: Embedding arts, culture, and community assets to strengthen engagement, resilience, and long-term social, economic, and environmental outcomes.
  

Chair: Sasha Karakusevic, strategic advisor, NHS Horizons, UK

Panel:

• Prof Matt Ashton, director of public health, Liverpool City Council, UK
• Stacey Strilchuk, principal owner, SLS Healthcare Consulting, Canada
• Stephen Lenehan, associate director, professional lead, primary care and neighbourhood, Archus, UK
• Kris Mackay, commercial director, 360 Degree Society, UK